GRAND RAPIDS ? Anna Bier is one of four Technology Business Consultants on staff at the Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center whose job is to help small technology businesses grow. Bier?s specialty is SBIR grants.
Bier has been a Technology Business Consultant for the MI-SBTDC since 2002. Bier brings extensive experience with federal grants and contracts to the MI-SBTDC as well as engineering research and development and other various aspects of creating and running many divisions of a high-tech business enterprise. She specializes in general SBIR/STTR and other federal grants/contracts program information sessions; specific agency information including tips, templates, instructions, and information necessary for writing a proposal; screening, technical, and commercialization reviews as well as submission assistance; and post award negotiation and reporting assistance. Since Anna has joined the MI-SBTDC, there have been 35 federal awards made to SBTDC clients for over $7 million.
Prior to joining the MI-SBTDC, Anna spent seven years as the co-Owner/Vice President/Chief Financial Officer/Scientist of a small high-tech business in Virginia. As such, she researched, wrote, negotiated and managed over 30 Phase I and Phase II SBIR and STTR contracts/grants for several U.S. Government agencies including the DoE, DoT, NSF, NIH, NRC, EPA, USDA, DoD, and NIST. Before the company was sold, four of these projects went through Phase III and are now in full scale production. Additionally, she has written, presented, and had published several papers at various conferences relating to her engineering and scientific research and served as a technology and commercialization advisor for the NSF, DoE and NIH proposal programs.
Anna received a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Virginia Tech in 2002. She also received a Master’s of Science in Physics from Texas A&M University in 1995 and a Bachelor’s of Science in Physics (with minors in Mathematics, Chemistry, and Russian History) from Virginia Tech in 1993.
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